Cyclohexanone oxime mesylate

Organoaluminum-promoted Beckmann rearrangement/methylation of cyclohexanone oxime mesylate, followed by allylation of ketimine 40a and Mannich cyclization of the intermediate iminium-allylsilane, provides piperidine 40b possessing cxo-unsaturation (08BKC1669). 

Trapping of the Beckmann intermediates with enol silyl ethers affords facile entry to a variety of en-amino ketones. This condensation takes place with retention of regiochemical integrity in both oxime sulfonates and enol silyl ethers. Reaction of 6-methyl-l-(trimethylsiloxy)-l-cyclohexene (41) or 1-methyl-2-(trimethylsiloxy)-l-cyclohexene (42) with cyclohexanone oxime mesylate furnishes (43) or (44), respectively, as the sole isolable products (equation 25). Another striking feature of the reaction is the high chemospecificity. The condensation of the enol silyl ether (45), derived from p-acetoxyaceto-phenone, occurs in a chemospecific fashion with cyclododecanone oxime mesylate, the acetoxy moiety remaining intact (equation 26). Oxime sulfonates of aromatic ketones and cyclopentanones are not employable since complex reaction mixtures are formed. 

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